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Not the type you smoke...the solder variety.
The time delay implies that heat is involved, which points at either a dry joint or a defective component. In all seriousness, have you tried hitting it? If that brings the sound back (even briefly) that that points at a solder joint problem.
In the old days that just meant running an iron over the board, but with the density of modern SMT and BGA devices that option isn't really there any more.

If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

In the minicomputer days, when computers where two meter tall 19" racks, I worked for a company making such machines. One customer experienced a crash every single day. The maintenance people ran all the tests available, without detecting any fault. After a lot of frustration, we placed two guys with loggers of all kinds directly connected to the computer, planning to "babysit" it 24/7 until it crashed again.

It must be explained that this computer managed a lot of automated equipment in a huge factory hall with about two hundred workers, placed up to the wall of this huge hall. The computer seemed to run without problems. Then around noon the "babysitters" jumped to the ceiling, clutching their hands to their ears to soften the sound from that really huge alarm bell telling the two hundred workers to go for lunch. Everybody immediately ran away ...and the computer had died. When the workers returned after lunch and the computer was dead, noone associated it with the lunch break, per se.

The cause of the problem was the huge hammer of that huge alarm, pulled by a huge solenoid, which crated such an intense field of electrical noise less than a meter away from that CPU, strong enough to kick it to death. The service men moved the computer a few meters to the side, to get away from that noise field, and the next day (and thereafter) the machine had no longer daily crashes.

David Braben, one of the creators of the original, is seeking £1.25m ($2m) via Kickstarter to fund the updated version.

Called Elite: Dangerous it will involve the same mix of interstellar travel, trading, piracy and spaceships as the original 8-bit game.

Yes I say, yes!

Also, please God, make it so awesome that we have to find a new word for how awesome it is.

#salivation#

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DDEthel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DDEthel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DDEthel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DDEthel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DDEthel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DDEthel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DDEthel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DDEthel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

When I was a kid, I was lucky to be able to have use of the bag of stones!

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DDEthel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DDEthel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Amazon's abandoning last years tablets already has left me disgusted enough that I'll never buy one of their android products.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

The best one remains the latest iPad ( You cannot imagine how much it costs me to reckon that). Then a good and cheaper alternative is the Transformer Pad TF300 from ASUS.

Most reviews about the Galaxy Tab 2 is that it is not that much superior to the 1 (at least the 10" version, the 7.1" has another display). Instead, the galaxy Note 10.1 seems to be a better while slightly different choice.

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

I receive a lot of mail about the V1 Agra, apparently it's the best tablet out there.

from personal experience, I'd second the Transformer as he can use it as a netbook or stand alone tablet.

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DDEthel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett